For all of the speculation about Brunson v Adams, we knew the Supreme Court would never take the case. Didn’t we? There is no end to the humiliation and degradation of those who believe we still live in a constitutional republic. We do not. The sooner folks understand that the United States of America of their youth is gone, consumed by the voracious appetite for power and control of the communists a long time ago, the better. The average American believes that this is not a communist country, because they don’t understand that a permit to build is asking permission from the government to do something with one’s own property. They don’t understand the whole part of “property” which precludes the need to ask anyone anything about it.
I once was talking to a candidate for county commissioner and I asked him the difference between owning something and not owning something. He didn’t understand what I was trying to get at. He said, “well, when you buy something, you own it.” “Like land?” I asked. “I guess,” he replied. “Like this cup off coffee?” I asked, holding up my paper cup. “Yes.” “You don’t see the difference?” “Not really,” he said. “The difference is when I own something, like this cup, no one will ever ask me for another cent, no matter what I do with it, even if I turn it into some sort of dwelling. But land, I don’t own that, because every year I have to pay for it again, to the government, in order to keep it.”
The very concept of property taxes is communist and anyone who benefits from it, or helps to collect it is also a communist. Now think of how embedded the idea of property taxes is in our society and think about how long these communist notions have been festering in a “free” nation.
Anyone willing to force, at the point of a gun, someone off of property they’ve paid every cent to acquire from the previous owner, so the government can sell it and keep the money is also a communist. There is no private property when property tax is collected, that’s all government property that one leases back from the government, even if one has the title to it, the deed.
Whether this all goes back to 1791 or 1871 or 1913 or 1963 (the government coup against Kennedy) is irrelevant other than some intellectual debate hosted by Hillsdale College. We’re living in the midst of a federal government run by unelected, unaccountable clerks and bottle washers in Washington, DC, who believe, and have every right to believe, that they run the country from their cubicles. They will violate any law, quash any right, send the FBI to any house, threaten any person, including Supreme Court justices, to get their way.
Excellent article by T.L. Here in Texas, property taxes are unbelievably high -- bordering on outright in your face theft. Even with the homestead and over 65 exemptions property taxes increase 10% per year. That means property taxes at a minimum double every 7.2 years. The county property appraisal districts operate as agents and jack booted thugs for the state and the communist indoctrination school districts. There is no amount of money that would satisfy the school districts and their low effort, high reward communist teachers. And do not forget that ex state first responders and ex military employees who claim to have a disability such as a “back injury” pay no property taxes which means they are just mooching free riders whose property taxes are then paid by the average Joe’s who were not ex government employees. Allowing city, county, school districts and state low IQ bureaucrats the power to tax property ensures that Texas will never be called a free state with free people. I forgot to mention the Republicans in the Texas legislature are all bought open border non-conservative pull peddling anti-freedom big spending red flag zionist parasites like the Democrats. I am done supporting Republicans who have conserved nothing. Who is $ John Galt? TEXIT!
I have used the you do not own your home because you have to pay taxes thing to point out you are not free. Some walk away and other go on to ask who will fix the roads… So many fools and cowards out there.
Wake Up America!
We are under some sort of spell -- I don’t hink most people can wake up, -- to be honest!
When I moved to TN, I retired. I finally had the time and energy to check where my New Joisey property taxes went.
40 cents of every dollar went to “education”. Out of that 40 cents, about 32 cents went to teacher salaries and/or pensions.
Most can retire after 25 year I think. I knew a retired history teacher/counselor that retired at 57. His pension was, wait for it, $52,000. He is now around $1 million in payments.
Something I think the founders missed was corruption of the courts.
Our courts rule to either the highest bidder or to their party ideology. No longer do they rule the law equally or according to the constitution.
Our constitution has been dead way before any of us were born, it’s just we’re starting to wake up that we were born slaves and that the walls are quickly closing in even more.
Ostensibly, property tax pays for public “education” and a few other things. As TL states, the tax is naked communism. If one has no kids in the indoctrination center, why should he pay? Further, schools waste MOST of the funding they get in large part, I believe, because the customers don’t pay the indoctrination center directly. Therefore, there is no accountability to those that provide the revenues. (I know a little about the wastefulness of schools, as I worked in a school district a short while. Even in the isolated and rural Wild West, the waste and lack of accountability and privileged, entitled arrogance of the teachers and administration is literally breathtaking, and very disheartening.) Anyway, we all pay our property tax and that gets portioned out to the various accounts funded by property tax. If most folks had to pay the school directly for “education” of their progeny, there would be many, many loud complaints for sure. Folks would send their kids where the money is best spent according to themselves. Deranged leftists bent on polluting their kids’ minds with garbage, filth and falsehood could find likeminded institutions (if there were enough other deranged leftists to support such a waste of time and oxygen), and normal people, similarly, would find institutions that are a benefit to the community and to the well being and development of the students. Because the system is set up with a PURPOSED disconnect and an INTENDED passivity, most folks abandon their rights as consumers. Most of us now feel so helpless at this point we just shrug and pay with little complaint so as to not garner the attention and the ire of the county’s AGW’s and thereby force getting swatted in the wee hours for failure to pay. Our government systems are so utterly broken, so evil in effort and intent, so ensconced and we, as members of society, are so mired in our collective servitude there seems precious little hope. If most folks had any inkling of the magnitude of the waste in the public school system they would be outraged. Those that do have an inkling sure are…very much so.
Thank you, excellent comment. Who is $ John Galt? TEXIT!
The powers that be also harnessed the intellectual, academic, artistic, scientific, medical, nutritional, relational (in the workplace; there is practically no bargaining power on behalf of the worker in relation to the employer dynamic (wages, hours, benefits, workplace conditions, etc., they are setting and determining trends as related to gender, and divorce works in their favor with men and women both needing to be in the workplace overall, and in many other aspects), as well as other forms of capital thereof, that really should belong to a cultural framework and not be the purview, extension and dominion of the government to regulate. They have been allowed to recruit from the lowest socio-economic brackets for their military, further enriching the power structure of the establishment, while the churches maintain the mediocrity of the domestic realm by ensuring poverty in many different forms remains chronic. This gives many different people pause and reason to not respect or like ‘their’ country, hence why many won’t fight nor have a vested interest in such; it wasn’t theirs to begin with. This is why it’s so astounding in part, that many people that talk revolution and taking their country back didn’t even see it coming, or perhaps even have a contextual understanding that a takeover consists of the institutions one encounters in daily life, as well as those that encompass the national, legal and governmental landscapes, and if they did realize it, relied on their capitalistic sentiments as a means of escapism.